Positive symptoms

• Definition

  Increased brain activity
• Hallucinations


  • Perceptual distortions or exaggerations
  • Auditory hallucinations are the most common - 80%
• Delusions


  • Firmly held, but false, beliefs caused by distortions of reasoning
  • Grandeur - bizarre & non-bizarre
  • Paranoid
  • Erotomanic - Thinking someone is in love with you
  • Nihilistic - Thinking you're dead